Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-15
SENT TO JAIL.
JOSEPH L. DOBLBR TAKEN TO ST. GLARS
WILLIE YESTERDAY
In Default Of Six Thousand Dollars Ba1-Ths
Proceedings Before ms
tce ROderer.

Joseph f. Dobler, the Wheeling man
charged with fraudulently obtaining money
from the coffee firm OF Arbuekle & Co.,
brought before Squire ROderer, Of
Bellaire, yesterday morning, the proposed
hearing commencing at nine o'clock.
The prisoner was represented by ]. B.
Smith, of Bellaire, and B. B. Dovener, OF
this city, while the prosecution was con-
Quoted by J.. C. Tallman, the attorney for
the Arbuckle Coffee Company. Detect
i've Gustave Frank, who worked up the
case, was also present.
The formal charge, drawn up by Attor-
ney Tallman, reeited that the coffee COM
pany had mailed a total of one hundred
and twenty-seyen checks to various per-
sons and places in Ohio, all of which were
supposed 10 have been received by the
prisoner. These checks footed up the sum
of eight thousand five hundred dollars.
The charge was not read to the prisoner,
and no plea was, therefore, made, but
Attorney Smith waived an examination on
behalf of his client, stating that Dobler
was ready to enter TO enter into recognl-
u for his appearance before the Com
mon Pleas Court. He cOntended that the
bail should be in a reasonable amount, and
defined the word reasonable to mean,
in this case, two hundred dollars.
Mr.. Tallman took decided objections to
this nominal bail, cOntendfhg that it was
insufficient TO ensure the appearance OF
the prisoner. Finally the Justice fixed
the amount of bail at six thousand dollars,
aud in default the prisoner was remanded
to the lookup. Later in the day he was
taken tOSt. Clairsville.
1t is thought by many people IN Bellalre
that Arbuckle Bros. will not prosecute
DObler if they can get their money back.
The prisoner has property worth about six
thousand dollars, and it is probable that
this will be given to satisfy the plalntlh
company.
Last evenings Bellaire Independent had
the following,
The appearance of the prisoner be-
tokens uneasiness. His face and whole
features indicate q lack of rest. The hair
on the top of his head is fairly white and
he looks careworn and haggard. His only
remark in the court Oom was after the
amount of his bond had been fixed. His
attorney asked why he didn't make the
bond fifty thousand dollars, which re-
mark was followed by his client saying:
Il am satisfied" The poor fellow looks,
acts and talks like q man with faint hope.
If his guilt is established and he Is SEN
fenced to a very long term Of years IN the
p~enitentiary, he will never serve out the
sentence. His health is broken already,
and being torn from his idOl-the elegant
home he had fixed up-will make him 90
down right rapidly. But it Is reason
ably certain now that every step Of the
prosecution will be contested. This
will make the trial, so far as the total
mount is concerned, a tedious one, as it
will be necessary to take testimony in all
the places where the alleged judgments
were supposed to have been taken, show
ing that the parties named in the fraudu-
lent certificates as debtors and justices
never existed. But the Quaker City case
AN easily be established, and unless some
compromise is effected, and the Arbuckles
the major portion of their money
back, there seems to be no means OF escape.
is probable, however, that q house that
does as lax a business as this great coffee
house did in this matter would be willing
to accept a return of part of their cash asa
compromise, and this may be the way the
ease will end.
AS to Dobler's guilt there SCENE to be
no question at all, and the only thing that
remains is the formality of establishing it
in court. His operations, or rather efforts,
were not confined to the coffee company.
He senta statement once to K. c. Schmertz,
the great window glass king at Pittsburg,
for costs that had been paid ut the time
the case was determined. AS another time
he sent a statement to the Adams Express
Company for fifteen dollars and costs in a
eaSe that had been settled. The company
authorized their agent here to settle it If
all right, but it so happened that Dobler
that time had not hid the Justices
docket in his home, and the agent, With
looked the case up. and it had all
been regularly settled rs the docket
Since the mysterious disappear
lnce of the docket, however, which was
in DObler's house along with the
other books taken by the authorities, we
know of no other cases. The average
of the l27 checks received by
n,hlar from, ArhurklaS waS SH6 o.